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	singing at night, they could sleep as soon as their heads touched the ground, on the bare earth, without shelter, or in a squalid hut with a dirty sheepskin wrapped around them. These quaint Africans, mingling in a kaleidoscopic show with adventurers coming from the ends of the earth, made a unique, moving drama on the stage of the Diamond Fields that cannot be forgotten by any spectator.